Sun Suihua, the granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen, the Founding Father of the Republic of China, passed away on April 16 in California, USA, at the age of 96.
On April 20, land media learned from the United Front Work Department of the Zhongshan Municipal Committee of Guangdong Province that Sun Suihua, the granddaughter of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the second daughter of Sun Ke, passed away in California on April 16 at the age of 96. Sun Suihua was born in Shanghai in 1925 and went to the United States in 1943. After graduating from Smith University, she settled in the United States for a long time.
After the Communist Party’s reform and opening up, Sun Suihua and her sister Sun Suiying were invited back to China several times to attend major commemorative events to commemorate the Xinhai Revolution, the birth of Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling, and were received by Deng Xiaoping and other Communist Party leaders, the newspaper said.
The Sun Suihua sisters have also visited their ancestors in Sun’s hometown of Cuiheng Village many times and donated money to support the Sun Yat-sen Memorial High School Construction Foundation, as well as donating more than 1,000 pieces of cultural relics and historical materials to the Sun Yat-sen Residence Memorial Hall and the Zhongshan City Museum.
Sun Yat-sen’s descendants live a low-key life overseas away from politics
As the founder and co-founder of the Republic of China, the children and descendants of Dr. Sun Yat-sen have basically stayed away from politics and lived a low-key life overseas.
Dr. Sun died on March 12, 1925, at the age of 58. He had three marriages in his life, leaving behind his only son Sun Ke and two daughters, Sun Yan and Sun Wan, both born to his original wife, Lu Muzhen. The eldest daughter, Sun Yan, died young and had no children; the youngest daughter, Sun Wan, had four children.
Sun’s eldest son, Sun Ke, gave birth to two sons and four daughters: his eldest son, Sun Zhiping, his second son, Sun Zhiqiang, and four daughters, Sun Suiying, Sun Suihua, Sun Suifang and Sun Suifen.
Sun’s descendants were not active in the political arena. Among the second generation, only the eldest son, Sun Ke, held important positions in the National Government under the aura of his father, and in his later years, he served as “senior administrator of the Presidential Office” and “Dean of Examination” in Taiwan.
Sun’s two sons, Sun Zhiping, served as a member of the KMT Central Committee and chairman of the Taiwan Television Corporation, while Sun only served as secretary of the Central Trust Bureau and advisor to the Taipei National Palace Museum.
In the fourth generation, Sun Guoxiong, son of Sun Zhiping, was invited to serve as Chen Shui-bian’s “national policy advisor” in 2005. The Sun Suihua sisters and the fifth generation of the Sun family have all settled in California for a long time.
Sun’s older brother, Sun Mei, was a successful businessman in Honolulu and donated all his family’s money to support Sun’s revolution. Sun Mei has many descendants, many of whom usually live in California.
Most of Sun’s descendants lived civilian lives abroad and stayed away from politics, especially the Chinese Communist Party.
Over the years, none of Sun’s descendants have settled back in China. Sun’s grandson-in-law and wife of Sun Zhiqiang, Lin Lun Ke, once said, “Although we are descendants of a great man, we didn’t expect to be special, and we usually keep a low profile, and our neighbors abroad all know that we are Sun’s descendants. We all live an ordinary life, the work of the work, the life of the life.”
Sun Yat-sen’s descendants are proud of Sun Yat-sen. Sun Suifen once said, “In my life, I feel most fortunate to have had such a grandfather. But he is not mine alone, but belongs to the entire Chinese people. I hope my grandfather’s spirit can inspire today’s young people not to give up on any of their goals.”
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